Morphology transition during low-pressure chemical vapor deposition

Phys Rev Lett. 2001 Sep 24;87(13):136102. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.136102. Epub 2001 Sep 10.

Abstract

Assuming a reemission model, we have studied, in detail, the effect of sticking coefficient on the morphology evolution in low-pressure chemical vapor deposition processes. We have shown that the surface morphology changes from a self-affine fractal to a columnarlike morphology with increasing sticking coefficient, which agrees qualitatively with experimental observations.